Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Year: 2011
Genre: Adventure, Action, Crime, Mystery
Studio: Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, Wigram Productions, Lin Pictures
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams, Eddie Marsan
Crew: Kieran Mulroney (Screenplay), Katie Spencer (Set Decoration), Dan Lin (Producer), Alison Harvey (Set Decoration), Michele Mulroney (Screenplay), Hans Zimmer (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 129 minutes
Release: Nov 22, 2011
IMDb: 7.14/10 by 10,497 users
Popularity: 8
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 125,000,000
Revenue: 334,615,000

As a general adventure and action movie I would consider this as a decent, even good, movie. As a Sherlock Holmes movie…not so much. Unfortunately, watching this movie confirms my suspicions. This is a Hollywood version of Sherlock Holmes. No style, no finesse. A Sherlock Holmes movie should not be a Hollywood action rollercoaster. It should be intelligent, stylish, witty perhaps involving detective work and, above all, British. It didn’t help that they enrolled Stephen Frey. This film is just not right. I really cannot stand the hostility between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. There no justification for it in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The slow motion scenes are nothing but annoying. The lame jokes are out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie. It gets a 5 out of 10 just because it’s actually a decent movie…if you can forget that they claim it to be a Sherlock Holmes one.
Probably the third time seeing this (once in theaters, another when it came out on Blu-ray) and still highly enjoyable, even think this is a tad better than the first if only because of Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty as a great adversary to Holmes. **3.75/5**